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WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust

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The Role of Anti-Semitism in the Rise of Hitler

How big a role did anti-Semitism play in Hitler's eventual rise to power? How much did he pull on anti-Semitic trade? Well, the first thing to say is that Hitler, it's an obsession. It's an obsession to virtual pathological levels with him, the Jews. And we can date this, really, to September 1919, when he writes a letter to a fellow soldier called Adolf Gemlich.

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